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Luc Hatlestad

Editor-at-Large

Luc Hatlestad writes and edits features, shorter articles, and narrative service packages for 5280 magazine and its website, with a particular focus on business, sports, politics, music, culture, opinion columns, and all things marijuana. In 2014, his package of stories on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, "Going Green," won the City and Regional Magazine Association award for Reader Service. He was a staffer at the original Red Herring magazine in numerous positions and was the magazine’s first East Coast editor. His writing has appeared in Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Premiere, San Francisco, Business 2.0, Salon, Mountain, and the American Journalism Review. Hatlestad also has extensive experience as a writer and editor for technology and business trade periodicals, where he won two awards for feature writing from the American Society for Business Publication Editors. Hatlestad has a BA in anthropology from Grinnell College and an MS from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

It's awards season in the NBA, and the Nuggets are cleaning up like Adele at the Grammys. Last Tuesday, George Karl won his first NBA coach of the year honor after a quarter century on the sidelines and almost 1,900 wins in his hall-of-fame career. Then, last Thursday, the league announced that...

Think you have a $5 million singing voice? Give it your best shot next week right here in Denver.The X Factor, executive producer Simon Cowell's latest musical competition, is holding open auditions on Tuesday, May 14 beginning at 7 a.m. at the Denver Coliseum. The most impressive crooners will be...

Since the Nuggets traded Carmelo Anthony to New York two years ago, the lingering question in Denver has been whether it's possible to win in the NBA without a true go-to superstar. The Nuggets, with their franchise-record 57 Ws this year, have proven this doesn't matter in the regular season;...

Rant: 420 Advocates Need to Behave Like the Grown-Ups They Claim To BeIt's been a rough week for legalized marijuana. First, Denver's annual 4/20 celebration narrowly averted tragedy when gunfire erupted in the packed Civic Center park. Three people were wounded, none of them seriously, in what law...

For several years now, Denver's real estate market has been all clouds with few silver linings. At 5280 every May, we run our annual real estate guide, and since 2008, the vast majority of our articles have focused on the broken housing market and how to navigate it.That's why we're delighted to...

Rant: What's the deal with overnight parking?OK, OK, you've heard us 5280-ers complain about parking in Denver a lot. And I myself have previously grumbled about the city's overnight parking rules. But nothing seems to be changing—and it's frustrating.Denver began phasing...

There's a phrase used by sportscasters: "You can't stop him; you can only hope to contain him." It was coined, I believe, by Dan Patrick when he was at ESPN. It's invariably delivered tongue-in-cheek about an otherwise middling player who gets hot for one unexpected night. And it's still usually...